Authors
- Adler, Margot, journalist and correspondent
- Angelou, Maya (born 1928), author, poet
- Brown, Dee (1908–2002), author, historian, novelist
- Brown, Helen Gurley (born 1922), author, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine
- Greg Alan Brownderville, poet
- Collins, Nancy A., author
- Fletcher, John Gould (1886–1950), poet
- Grisham, John (born 1955), novelist
- Grossman, Dave, author
- Hamilton, Laurell K. (born 1963), horror/fantasy author
- Jones, Lauren E. (born 1989), historian, novelist
- Mathis, Deborah, (????- ), journalist and author
- McGehee, Peter (1955–1991), novelist
- Portis, Charles (born 1933), novelist
- Starr, John Robert (1927–2000), journalist
- Woodward, C. Vann (1908–1999), historian
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